Gar- seat recorder



(NoModeL J. K. BYWATERS & J. Y. BURKE.

OAR sEAT REGORDER.

No. 337,305. Patented Mar. 2, 1886.

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JOSEPH K. BYWATERS AND JOHN Y. BURKE, OF PARIS, TEXAS.

CAR-SEAT accesses.

EEGIPICeLTIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,305, dated March 2, 1888.

Application filed October 1885. Serial X0. 130,372. (No 111M111.)

To aZZ whomit may concern:

Be it known that we, JosEPH K. Brwa'rnns and JOHN Y. BURKE ofParis,inith'e county of Lamar and State ofTexas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gar-Seat Re corders, of which the following is a description.

Our invention is an improvement in the class of recorders adapted for connection with the seat of apassenger-vehicle for the purpose of recording the number of miles traveled by a passenger while occupying said seat. The novelty is embodied in the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view showing the application of our inven tion to a railway-car, part being in section and part broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical trans verse section showing the recording apparatus applied. to a car-seat. Fig. 3 is another transverse section of the carseat and recording apparatus. Fig. i is another sectional view of the same. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the seat-spring and the lever that connects it with the puncturing device. Fig. 6 is a plan view of a portion of the graduated strip indicating distances.

The recording apparatus A is located in the middle of the car-seat B, the latter being thus divided into two separate equal parts, on, each of sufficient width to accommodate a passenger.

Each part a is spring-supported, and when depressed by the weight of a passenger effects the desired recording, as hereinafter described.

Beneath the seat A is a shaft, 0, arranged lengthwise thereof, and having a spur-gear, D, which rotates with it and meshes with'a smaller gear, E, that imparts motion to the recording apparatus proper, A. The shaft 0 is rotated slowly by means of a gear-connection with a car-axle, F, as will be presently described.

The recording apparatus A is formed, mainly, of two pairs of friction feed-rollers, l 2 and 1 2, a spear-pointed cutter, G, and a card or paper strip, H, laid between the rollers. The rollers are all arranged with their axes horizontal,and the lower rollers, 1 1,having pinions b, which mesh with the intermediate gear, E, before referred to. Thus positive motion in the same direction is imparted to said rollers c, 4, between the pairs of rolls 1 l. The lower end is attached to a centrally-t'nlcrumed lever, I, whose other end connects with four-armed spring, K, Fig. 5, applied tothe bottom of one of the parts a of the car-seat Fig. 2. it will now be perceived that when the seat portion a is depressed the lever I is tilted, and the cutter G forced up through the strip H, and will remain in that position so long as the seat is occupied. As the strip H is continuously traveling, it is obvious it will be slit by the cutter during the time the pas senger is seated, and, as the strip is in practice inscribed with names of stations and is also graduated, Fig. 6, in sixteen ths of an inch, onei'or each mile of the road, it will be seen that the length of the slit in strip H will indicatethe number of miles of travel during which the seat is occupied. To throw the cutter down so that its point will be below the paperstrip H, as when the seat a is unoccupied, we employ a spring, L, that encircles the shank of the cutter. The lever I connects with the four-armed spring K at its center, so that pressure applied to any portion of the seat will be transferred to the lever I, and therefore effect the desired record.

Two recording apparatus might be used-- one for eachv partc of the car-seat, but the axes of the rollers l and 2 may be extended and have other rolls 1 1 applied thereto, as shown in Fig. 4,so that two recording apparatus p rop= er may be operated from the same set of gears. The upper rolls, 22, are journaledina portion of the recording-case,which is hinged, and by opening this portion access is had to the strip H. The whole is inclosed in a case provided with lock and key.

The gearing for imparting motion from the car-axle to the shaft 0 of the registering ap para-tus is constructed and arranged as follows: Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3 it will be seen that a shaft, M, extends longitudinally of the car, beneath a row of seats, and is connected by worm-gear d with the several shafts 0 of the recording apparatus applied to the respective seatsthat is to say, a shaft, M, is arranged on each side of the car beneath each row of seats, and operates the recording apparatus of each of the latter. Each shaft M derives slow motion fromavertical shaft, N, Figs. 1, 2, that 1 i. The cutter G works vertically in a guide},

has a worm-gear connection, 0, with a trans verse shaft, 0, supported in hangers p beneath the car. This transverse shaft 0 in turn gears with a shaft, P, arranged horizontally at right angles to it, and extending to the inner axle, F, of one of the car-trucks,wi th which it is conneotedby worm-gearf. Said shaft P has a universaljoint,g, and sliding spring-coupling, h, to provide for the difference of oscillation between the truck and body of the car.

What we claim is 1. The combination, with the depressible seat, the traveling paper strip, the mechanism for imparting mot-ion to said strip, the cutter G and its encircling spiral spring L, of the lever I, and the four-armed plate-spring K, attached. to one end of said'lever, and ap- :0 portion of the seat tilts the lever and effects the desired record, as specified.

JOSEPH K. BYWATERS. JOHN Y. BURKE.

Witness G O, F BURDETT, W. J. WARREN." 

